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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH DION, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

STRlPlNG-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 227,501, dated May 11, 1880.

Application filed May 5, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH DION, of Ohicago, Cook county, State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Paint- Striping Machines, of which the following is a full description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, of which there are two sheets, in which Figure 1 is a plan. Fig. 2 represents a handle which has been striped. Fig. 3 is a plan of the parts represented, the painting-rollers and paint-distributing rollers being removed from Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is an end elevation, showing the hinged striping-roller thrown back. Figs. 5 and 6 are details.

The leading object of this invention is to construct a machine by the use of which broomhaudles can be cheaply and rapidly ornamented with stripes of paint around the same, which I accomplish by means of painting rollers, paint-distributing devices, and other devices, as hereinafter fully described.

In the drawings, A represents a suitable B O are two striping-rollers. They may be made of Wood and rubber or other material. They might be made whollyof wood, though I use rubber on the outside.

The parts a of theroller B are those which receive and apply the paint, the remaining parts being cut away, so that the paint is not received by the smaller cut-away parts of the roller. The painting-roller O is made in the same manner; but the two 'rollers B O are so made and arranged relatively to each other that those parts of one which receive and apply the paint are opposite to the recesses or cut-away portions of the other, so that the roller B can receive and apply one color and 0 another color without interfering with each other.

The roller B is suspended in aframe hinged to the main frame. Each side of the-frame in which E is supported consists of two pieces, D E, which are somewhat loosely connected together, and the journals of the roller are somewhat loose in the frame, to provide for a little flexibility, so that either end of this roller B can be brought more fully into contact with handles which may be crooked or uneven.

F is a cross-bar on the top of E E. This frame is hinged upon a rod, 1), as shown, The roller (J is supported in suitable bearings in the frame A and has a cog-wheel, G, on one end.

H H are two paint-rollers, supported in bearings in the frame A. They maybe made of wood. H has a cog-wheel, I, on one end.

J J are two distributing-rollers which run in contact with H H.

c c are two small traveling distributingrollers. Each is supported in a frame, (I, which is hinged at the outer end to a short post, K,

which posts are connected with a cross-bar, L. M M are the two arms of a bell-crank lever, pivoted at e to some part of the main frame.

M has an extensiomf, on the end, which is loosely connected with the under side of L by means of a staple, g. M and f might be made of one piece. The outer end of M enters a loop, h, which is connected with the bar N,

the inner end of which is pivoted to the rim of the cog-wheel O, which is supported in the main frame.

dis a rod, which is connected at one end with the loop h. The other end of t' passes loosely through a staple, j. As shown, the loop h is connected with N by means of l, which is but a continuation of one end of theloop; and when the machine is in motion Z moves back and forth in slot or space at, provided for this purpose.

P is a rod having a fork at one end, which is secured to L. This rod slides in a bearing upon the main frame, and serves as a guide to keep L in line while moving.

a a are two small rollers supported in posts 0 0 on the main frame, and near to the roller 0. These rollers a a support one side of the handle to be painted, the other side being in contact with the striping -roller 0. These rollers 02 a stand at an angle with the ends of the machine, and are so arranged that as they rotate they carry and keep the end of the broom-handle against the adjustable stop or guide Q, so that all of the handles will be striped at a uniform distance from the smaller end, which is put against the stop Q, and by.

making the tendency of the handles to move while rotating bear in one direction against a stop the stripe boundaries are more uniform and more clearly defined on the handle than they would be if the end movement was not controlled.

Q is a stop, with which the end of the handle is in contact while being striped. This stop is adjustable.

B is a broom-handle. In Fig.1 it is in the machine. In Fig. 2 it is removed therefrom, having been striped. The black lines on B in Fig. 2 represent painted stripes of one color, and thewhite spaces between the black lines around it represent painted stripes of another color.

S is a pinion upon a shaft on which is a flywheel, T. U is a treadle; but the machine may be driven by power through a belt and pulley.

The operation is as follows: A quantity of paint is to be placed on H H and properly distributed, and the roller B is to be brought into contact with H by turning up the frame in which it is located, shown in Fig. 4, in which position the parts a will receive paint from H. The roller G will at the same time receive paint from J. A handle to be striped is tobe placed in position between C and n a, one end being against the stop Q. Then the roller B is to be brought over against the handle R in the machine, as shown in hig. l, and pressed down against such handle, this being done by the operator, who takes hold of the cross-bar F. The handle will be made to rotate by the action of the roller (J against it, and the friction between the handleRand the roller B will cause the latter to rotate, and thus stripes will be rapidly and well painted on the handle by the raised portions of the two rollers B G. Then the roller B is to be again brought to the position shown in Fig. 4, the striped handle is to be removed, and another placed in the machine.

Paint must be from time to time applied to the rollers H H. While the machine is in motion the paint will be partially distributed by the action of the rollers J J. At the same time the small rollers c 0 will travel back and forth over J and H through the action of the bar N and the bell-crank lever M M, the movement of which causes the bar L to travel. In

Fig. 3 this bar L is at one end of the machine, and then the rollers c 0 will be as shown in Fig. 1. As the wheel 0 rotates it will carry N, and with it the outer end of M, to the right, the lever M M turning on the pivot at c, which, of course, will cause L to travel toward the other end of the machine, carrying also the rollers c c. The reverse movement of the lever will bring L and c 0 back to the position shown in Figs. 1 and 3. Any round piece of suitable size can be striped in this manner.

In making the rollers B 0 they can be adapted to make stripes of different widths. The striping-rollers B C may be about two and a half inches in diameter and of any desired length. The roller H may be about five inches in diameter, and H may be about two and a halfinches in diameter. The rollers 02. a are rotated by the friction of the handle R.

The pieces K K are notched, as shown in Fig. 4, so that they restand slide on the upper side bars of the main frame. As shown, the roller J runs in bearings; but J rests on the rollers O and H, being prevented from moving laterally by a stop, 12, at each end.

The upper end of each piece D may be notched or forked, as shown in Fig. 6, to receive the journals of the roller B, which journals are inserted in holes in E E.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

1. The striping roller B, supported in a swinging frame, in combination with the fixed striping-roller O and suitable paint receiving and distributing devices, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. The striping roller B, supported in a swinging flexible frame, D E F, in combina tion with the fixed striping-roller O and suitable paint receiving and distributing devices, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

The rollers n a, in combination with the striping-roller O and swinging striping-roller B and guide or stop Q, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

4. The combination, with the frame and distributingrollers H J of the rollers 00, frames 01, posts K, bar L, bell-crank lever M M, bar

or rod N, and wheel or crank O, substantially 100 as and for the purposes specified.

JOSEPH DION.

Witnesses:

E. A. WEs'r, O. W. Born). 

